Swinging Swede

Norman Granz combined his Clef and Norgran labels into Verve in 1956. It's really the same label, and thus Universal-owned now.

Well, all things taken together I think it's definitely less of a hassle to order CDs from the US, than getting the Cactus discs. I have ordered from CD Universe several times in the last two years since EMI Europe went Cactus, and have been 100% satisfied so far. I think they're great!

So the Japanese can release unissued material Cuscuna doesn't want to see released? That opens up new possibilities...

Haven't read anything official, but I think we have seen the last JRVGs. Toshiba seems to be very busy with the new TOCJ-24 series instead. 140 Blue Note titles have already been released in a year, and another 160 titles have been announced up to March 2006!

I ordered the Kid Ory earlier this week. It was the top priority for me of these sets. I'm confident it will be excellent, and it will be nice to hear such a jazz pioneer (born 1886!) in modern stereo sound. Plus nothing of it is available on individual CDs. After it has gone OOP I hope Mosaic will do a George Lewis Verve box. Nothing of his Verve albums on CD either. I plan to get the J.J. Johnson box too eventually. I noticed that it contains a lot of previously unissued material, so even if Collectables start to put out twofers of Johnson's original Columbia albums (as they did with Condon for example) there is still a lot on it that may not become available again. However, with 700 copies left, I think there is no need to hurry just yet. I'm not much of a vocalist fan, so I hadn't really planned to get the O'Day. But I must say that the extensive praise this set gets intrigues me. But it is a lot of money to spend to get all of these sets, and as mentioned, other sets may become endangered soon too. Hmm, I have to think really hard about this. But not for too long apparently, since the O'Day will likely be gone in a day or two!

Still not worth it, considering the inferior format.

Here 'tis: The Complete CBS Buck Clayton Jam Sessions (#144)

According to Mosaic's online Jacquet discography info about 78 releases *is* included. Or maybe I misunderstood what you're looking for? By the way, Mosaic left one track (Don't Push Daddy) off the set, at the request of Jacquet, who didn't like his solo. This track can be found on the Classics volume 1946-1947.

Donald Byrd's "Slow Drag" had never been released before on CD in the U.S., and maybe not even in Japan either ( ) --- so this isn't the first time a title has slipped into the RVG series that hadn't even been on CD in the U.S. market before. ← Although the RVGs started out as a "the classics remastered" series, there have by now actually been quite a few that hadn't been on CD in the west before. Add these: Groovin' At Smalls' Paradise (the very first of them, I think, back in 1999) Rockin' The Boat A Fickle Sonance Capuchin Swing Action Am I Blue Goin' West Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Hustlin' The Stylings Of Silver In Pursuit Of The 27th Man

Great news!

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Cool. I'll sign up there some day. The Big Band Talk forum may be a good place too once they get their new software (the old one was too spam-friendly). Several knowledgeable posters there in its old incarnation.

So now the Japanese and the European fans of this session will have a chance to get this while everyone in the US continues to be denied access. Well, I don't view the European Cactus version as a chance to get it, to be honest. The Japanese CD is the only option as far as I am concerned. I may get it to replace the bluish Spanish Time-Life version I currently have.

Yes, it is on the latest volume in Classics' Ventura series: and also on the infamous Definitive label:

Ah, yes, the classic BN album Soul Shouting.

You can scratch McDuff’s Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring? off the list, since it was recently reissued by Water. As for LPs recorded before the 70s, these can be added to the list: 5036: Urbie Green - New Faces, New Sounds (12/27/53) LT 1057: Harold Land - Take Aim (7/25/60) GXF 3057: Kenny Burrell - Freedom (3/27/63, 4/2/63, 10/22/64) LT 993: Stanley Turrentine - New Time Shuffle (2/17/67, 6/23/67) 4295: Reuben Wilson - On Broadway (10/4/68) McCoy Tyner - ’Cosmos’ (4/4/69) [half of the double album BN-LA 460-H2] - this has not been on CD yet, but will come out on an upcoming Mosaic Select. There were six Turrentine tracks from 1967 on his ”Best Album” (BN-LA 394-H2) that haven’t been anywhere else. There are also unissued Turrentine tracks from that period. A CD combining them all would be nice. From the 70s there are plenty of other titles of course – Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver etc.

...and somewhere in an organissimo board member's home!

There have been some previous suggestions...

They came out on a regular CD in 1991, and then again in the Collector's Choice series in 1997. Sonny Clark's Sonny's Crib, Stanley Turrentine's Blue Hour and Hank Mobley's Straight No Filter had all come out before, although the Mobley had different configuration, the Turrentine had extra material, and the Clark was in stereo for the first time (if I remember correctly). So at least there was something new about those.

Yes, unless they are going to use this one: and a variation of this:

Yes, only 17 Blue Note tracks, but there are also 3 tracks from a 1957 Pacific Jazz session, that made up one half of an LP (the other half had Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers).

Yes, the session ended with an untitled Donaldson blues, which is listed as rejected. Once again one wonders: how bad can it really be?

And who can forget this classic?

Yes, it has been on CD both as a TOCJ (which I have myself) and a JRVG. I suppose there is a good chance that it will turn up again fairly soon in the ongoing TOCJ24 series, and it should also be a serious candidate for a "domestic" release. It's really odd that it hasn't been released on CD outside Japan yet.